I do not mean by that that Mr.Jermyn is not excellent and sincere; for I know nothing of him except what you have told me yourself.

But zeal without discretion is a very firebrand; and prudence without zeal may become something very like cowardice; and either of these two things may injure the Catholic cause irreparably in the days that are coming.

St.
Peter's was the one, and Judas', I take it, was the other; for I hold Judas to have been by far the greater coward of the two." * * * * * When I came out into the passage with him, I kneeled down and asked his blessing; for I knew that this was of a truth a man of God..